Which jobs involve mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment?

36 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders, Automotive Body and Related Repairers, Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators, Cutters and Trimmers, Hand, Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	36 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 36 occupations that perform it.

Chain or clamp frames and sections to alignment machines that use hydraulic pressure to align damaged components.
Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
Position, align, and secure workpieces against fixtures or stops on machine beds or on dies.
Position and secure workpieces on tables, using bolts, jigs, clamps, shims, or other holding devices.
Lift and position workpieces, manually or with hoists, and secure them in hoppers or on machine tables, faceplates, or chucks, using clamps.
Lift metal stock or workpieces manually or using hoists, and position and secure them in machines, using fasteners and hand tools.
Position and secure workpieces on machines, using holding devices, measuring instruments, hand tools, and hoists.
Position and secure workpieces on machines, and start feeding mechanisms.
Position, adjust, and secure stock material or workpieces against stops, on arbors, or in chucks, fixtures, or automatic feeding mechanisms, manually or using hoists.
Lift, position, and secure machined parts on surface plates or worktables, using hoists, vises, v-blocks, or angle plates.
Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
Mount workpieces in fixtures, on arbors, or between centers of machines.
Position objects to be plated in frames, or suspend them from positive or negative terminals of power supplies.
Attach workpieces to grinding machines and form specified sections and repair cracks, using welding or brazing equipment.
Secure printing plates to printing units and adjust tolerances.
Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate cover attachment.
Spread soiled articles on work tables, and position stained portions over vacuum heads or on marble slabs.
Position items under needles, using marks on machines, clamps, templates, or cloth as guides.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

36 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Position workpieces or materials on equipment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment	37
Feed materials or products into or through equipment	21
Adjust fabrics or other materials during garment production	9
Maneuver workpieces in equipment during production	6
Position raw materials on processing or production equipment	6

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.